Showing posts with label scent dinner. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Eric Buterbaugh Florals Scent Dinner with Chandler Burr

"An evening of scent and cuisine". This is the promising tag line of a new scent dinner organized by former New York Times scent critic Chandler Burr and Eric Buterbaugh of Buterbaugh Florals who unite their forces to offer an all-encompassing sensory experience.

WHERE
Eric Buterbaugh Gallery
8271 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90048

WHEN
Friday 14th of October 2016 at 7pm.


The scent menu is created by Burr (above) from gourmand essences and materials in Buterbaugh's (below) eight floral perfumes. The culinary menu is overseen by Viviane Executive Chef Michael Hung.
Sounds enticing!

You can reserve your seating by contacting gallery@ebflorals.com

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Chandler Burr Scent Dinners now on Video

We have referenced the gastro-olfactory synergy which writer and perfume journalist Chandler Burr has been creating for his guests at his Scent Dinners. Now for those of you who missed them, there is video footage to watch so you can get a glimpse of what they entail. Next best thing to actually being there... The first video is from Burr's dinner at The Four Seasons Restaurant with chef Fabio Trabocchi. The second video comes from Nathalie's, an expensive but wonderful restaurant in Camden, ME, where Burr collaborated with chef Lawrence Klang. Click to watch!



Thursday, November 12, 2009

Chandler Burr Scent Dinner in New York City

If you're in New York City this December and with an appetite of combining scent learning and fine cuisine, another scent dinner organised by Chandler Burr is waiting for you.
The details are:

December 2, 2009 Scent Dinner
Two menus, one olfactory, created by Chandler Burr, The New York Times scent critic, and one culinary, created by Fabio Trabocchi, Exec. Chef of The Four Seasons Restaurant.

The Four Seasons Restaurant
99 East 52nd St.
(b/t Park & Lex)
New York NY 10022
212 754 9494

In the Pool Room. 7pm
Business Attire $250 per person, all inclusive

For Reservations please call or email:
Regina
212.759.9008
Regina@FourSeasonsRestaurant.com

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Chandler Burr Scent Dinners: now in Europe!

The New York Times perfume critic and writer of two books in the fragrance world (The Emperor of Scent and The Perfect Scent) has been organising scent dinners in New York City. Those who have attended have been enchanted with the experience! After all, readers of Perfume Shrine had a chance to see how congenial Chandler really is in his interview to us.

Now readers in Europe have a chance to meet up with him and book a place for his "scent dinners" which combine culinary pleasure with olfactory escapades of the perfumed kind!

Context Travel is the boutique tour shop that created those special guided tours. Founded by National Geographic writer Paul Bennett and Lani Bevacqua, Context is a network of English-speaking scholars and professionals —including art historians, writers, architects, and gastronomes— who organize and lead didactic walking seminars in seven cities: Paris, New York, London, Rome, Naples, Florence, Paris, and Venice. In May 2007, Travel + Leisure named Context one of the top European tour companies for its innovative approach to travel and the depth of its programs. To learn more about Context visit contexttravel.com


Paris, Rome and Florence are the cities that will be featured this summer: June 5 for Paris (full scent dinner), June 10 for Rome (perfume lecture with food and wine) and June 11 for Florence (full scent dinner).


SCENT DINNERS EXPLORE PERFUME IN PARIS, FLORENCE, AND ROME

Context, the network of scholars and other experts who lead walking tours of major world cities, will host a series of “scent dinners” with noted perfume critic Chandler Burr as part of their “Out of Context” series of site-visits, lectures, and special programs. Combining taste and smell with a fascinating discussion of perfume history, chemistry, and politics, the events will explore the intoxicating relationship between some of the world’s greatest scents and some of her greatest cities.“Chandler Burr has the uncanny ability to unfold something as seemingly silly and ephemeral as perfume in such a way that you see the complexity of human endeavor and aspiration” says Context founder Paul Bennett. “We’re thrilled to have him join our network and apply his unique lens to understanding and appreciating some of the greatest cities in the world.

The series begins on June 5 in Paris, with a dinner organized inconjunction with the historic Left Bank restaurant, Laperouse. Working with chef Samuel Benne, Burr will design a gastronomic and olfactory experience that explores the intimate relationship between Paris and the perfumes it has created —arguably the best and most important perfumes in history.
This will be followed by a second event in Rome on June 10, at the enoteca Casa Bleve, located in part of the ancient bath complex of Agrippa, where Burr will look at perfumes that evoke the Italian landscape.
And, finally, the series concludes with a special event at the Palazzo Tornabuoni in Florence on June 11.

Each evening begins with a discussion of perfume, its history and aesthetics. Burr introduces the fundamental idea that perfumes, like architecture, or a chair, or a dress, are designed and thus can be analyzed and broken down into their constituent parts. Working with a category of perfumes known as culinary/gourmand perfumes —that is, perfumes that are made from such edible sources as spices, herbs, fruit, chocolates a nd teas— Burr then begins deconstructing certain perfumes for the group, passing around samples of the perfume itself or its component parts to allow participants to “rebuild” the perfume themselves. For example, Burr might explain how Thierry Mugler's megahit Angel was designed to evoke an amusement park, and then pass around the molecul ethyl maltol, which is what one tastes and smells when eating cotton candy. In the Paris and Florence events, each perfume will be coupled to a dish designed by the chef in a way that expounds on these themes and ideas, allowing the participants to more fully understand the total olfactory and gastronomic structure of what they’re sampling.

The events are programmed as part of Context’s “Out of Context”series. This is a series of special lectures, site-visits, and thematic dinners that explore the great cities of the world in new andinventive ways. The series runs through the spring and summer, and again in the fall and winter.
Chandler Burr is The New York Times’ perfume critic and author of several books. His latest is The Perfect Scent: A year inside the fragrance industry in Paris and New York)(Henry Holt, January 2008). He speaks around the world on scent and perfume and hosts interactive masterclasses in gourmand scents.

To book your own seat, contact:
Paul Bennett, +1 888-467-1986, +3906 482 0911, or paul@contexttravel.com


Pic from Angelina, 226 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris

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